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Gravity is only the second-ever film I’ve gone to see twice at the cinema on its initial run. The other one was… erm… Die Hard 2, but hey, back in 1990 you weren’t ever going …
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire sees Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) a little on edge after winning the 74th Hunger Games alongside Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) in the first film. Not difficult to see why when …
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Cinema Paradiso Director’s Cut: Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Like all right-thinking people, I saw Cinema Paradiso back in the day and absolutely loved it. Who can’t fail to be charmed by the tale of the love of cinema bringing together projectionist Alfredo (Philippe …
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The Grand Budapest Hotel – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Grand Budapest Hotel centers around an elderly Mr. Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham), in 1985,recounting tales about his life at the hotel to a young writer (Jude Law), starting from the moment he started as …
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The Monuments Men – The DVDfever cinema review
The Monuments Men is a film that can be summed up in one sentence, and really should be meant to play out equally succinctly but, unfortunately, is allowed by its director and lead actor, George …
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Ender’s Game on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Ender’s Game takes place in the near future and sets the scene that 50 years ago, an alien race called the Formics attacked the Earth and were only defeated by the big commander, Mazer Rackham …
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Stalingrad 3D – The DVDfever cinema review
Stalingrad, as you’d expect, is a film which looks at the famous battle which mostly took place in late 1942, during World War II, and is a Russian-made film which surprised me in managing to …
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Le Weekend on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Le Weekend is so-called, not because the film is in French, but because Nick (Jim Broadbent) and Meg (Lindsay Duncan) are on a romantic weekend away to Paris for their wedding anniversary. Having travelled via …
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Dallas Buyers Club – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Dallas Buyers Club doesn’t beat about the bush when it comes to introducing the protagonist. Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is a sexist, homophobic mysoginist and when we first see him, having sex with with a …
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Not Another Happy Ending on DVD – Karen Gillan movie – The DVDfever Review
Not Another Happy Ending is Karen Gillan‘s first movie since finishing Doctor Who, which brought her to the fore as Amy Pond. Here, she plays struggling author Jane Lockhart, and finally, after squillions of rejection …
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